Story+1976-08-01+Red+Bank,+NJ

”I was living in this two-family house .....on this main road used to....go thru town..... and uh....my mom used to work downtown in some office building as a secretary.... and my pop, he was, uh.....he was a guard down at the jail sometimes......a lot of times he just stayed home.....and I wouldn’t be home.....I remember......my old man......used to shut off all the lights in the house and.....just sit in the kitchen...... drink beer..... smoke cigarettes.....in the wintertime sometimes he....he’d leave the gas stove on so that it got....real hot in there, shut all the doors......my mom used to.....sit in the frontroom.....watch TV.....I’d go out.....and if you came......if me and my sister came in.....we came in around ten or eleven, it wasn’t too bad.....but if we came in late..... I remember my pop would sit there waiting for me.....sitting there in the dark ......and I’d come in and I’d try to.....try to make it thru the kitchen to go up to my room......(?).... he’d call my name.....to come sit down and talk to him for a while ... we’d sit there in the dark.....I remember I could always hear his voice.....but I could never see his face.... we’d talk about mostly nothing.....what I was doing in school (?)....he’d start asking me what I thought I was doing with myself....where I was getting my money from......(?)....pretty soon we’d start screaming at each other.....my mom’d come in from the frontroom......to keep us from fighting with each other .....and I’d be running out the backdoor.....telling him that it was my life.....I could do what I wanted to do.....”
 * 01.08.76 Red Bank, NJ, intro to ‘It’s My Life’:**

”(?)....20 years ago, a man by the name of (?) McDaniels.....discovered this beat, they found out it was.....the heart of the universe.....(?).....that whenever this beat was played.....girls would throw off their clothes and jump (?)(cheers).....grown men would fall down to their knees and cry.....good girls would go bad.....and the bad got worse (cheers)....discovered this beat in the deepest, darkest part of the world.....’bout a half a mile off Route 18.....(?)....”
 * 01.08.76 Red Bank, NJ, intro to ‘She’s the One’´:**

”Here’s a new song, be on our.....new album, I guess, when it comes out....”
 * 01.08.76 Red Bank, NJ, intro to ‘Something in the Night’:**

”This is for, uh.....my uncle Gene.....you out there, Gene ?.....where are you ?.... and my little sister.....(?)....wherever you are, Rosie, come out tonight.....”
 * 01.08.76 Red Bank, NJ, intro to ‘Rosalita’:**

”(?)....Are you all loose ? (cheers)....then gimme a E.....S....T....R....E...E....T ..... what’s that spell ?....what’s that spell ?......what’s that spell ?.....raise your hand because it’s real.....”
 * 01.08.76 Red Bank, NJ, intro to ‘Raise Your Hand’:**

”How many of you folks gonna be coming back this week ? (cheers).....(?)....”
 * 01.08.76 Red Bank, NJ, intro to ‘You Can’t Sit Down’:**

//Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi//